Each year on April 22 Google's homepage marks the occasion of Earth Day. Most of the time, these interactive logos are a celebration of our planet and its ecosystems, but this year, after a particularly devastating international climate report, the G
But this year there are no cute characters dancing around on Google's homepage teaching us how to be good stewards of our planet. In fact, there are no illustrations at all.Using real imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources, today's Earth Day doodle cycles through images of glacier retreat on Mount Kilimanjaro and in Greenland, coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and a plague of forest destruction in Germany.
Greenland's glaciers have received more attention in general, as they are retreating at a particularly rapid rate. The timelapse featured on Google's Earth Day doodle spans 2000 to 2020.Images from the Greenland ice sheet in Sermersooq each December from 2000 to 2020. In warmer locales, like the Great Barrier Reef, a landscape of white is the new normal, and it's not a good thing at all; bleaching events in 2016 destroyedof Lizard island's colorful coral. The timelapse breaks down that year's destruction month to month, from March to May on a single patch of reef.The final timelapse depicts forest dieback in the Harz region of Germany.
"We need to act , innovate , and implement . It's going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens – everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet," reads the Earth Day"And while there is still time to solve the climate crisis, time to choose BOTH a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature and build a healthy planet for our children and their children, time is short.
Today's Google Doodle serves to drive that message home. No matter what you search on this Earth Day, you won't be able to escape our planet's grim reality.
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